DEVIL'S GUIDE TO HOLLYWOOD THE SCREENWRITER AS GOD

ESZTERHAS JOE

ISBN 10: 031235987X / ISBN 13: 9780312359874

Published by ST MARTINS PRESS, NY, 2006

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BOOK IS AS NEW APPEARS UNREAD HILARIOUS ORNERY COLORFUL AND WISE THE AUTHOR GIVES US A FIRST HAND ACCOUNT OF LIFE IN HOLLYWOOD AS A SCREENWRITER WITH MANY NEVER BEFORE TOLD STORIES STATED FIRST EDITION FULL NUMBER LINE JOE ESZTERHAS HAS TRULY UNIQUE TAKES JACKET IS BRIGHT AND UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL PRICE 24.95 MINOR AREAS OF SHELFWARE.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: DEVIL'S GUIDE TO HOLLYWOOD THE SCREENWRITER AS GOD
• Publisher: ST MARTINS PRESS, NY
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 031235987X
• ISBN 13: 9780312359874
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: N/A
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

Mike Ovitz told him his Wilshire Blvd. "foot soldiers" would hunt him down. He's antagonized almost everyone at the top in Tinseltown. And now, Joe Eszterhas tells everything he knows -- in brief, quotable bursts -- about the business, the history of Hollywood, and how to write screenplays that make millions. Idiosyncratic, gruff and as shaggy as Eszterhas himself, The Devil's Guide to Hollywood makes a character/leitmotif of Eszterhas' fellow Hungarian Zsa Zsa Gabor ("Money is like a sixth sense that makes it possible for you to fully enjoy the other five."), and makes the case that Marilyn Monroe was the sharpest tack in Hollywood ("Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents."). Refreshing, dirty, tough, there's no book like it.

About the Author

Joe Eszterhas has written fifteen films which have made more than a billion dollars at the box office. Among them are Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge, Flashdance, Showgirls, Betrayed, Music Box and F.I.S.T. He is the author of the recent New York Times bestsellers AMERICAN RHAPSODY and HOLLYWOOD ANIMAL. In 1975, his second book, CHARLIE SIMPSON'S APOCALYPSE, was nominated for the National Book Award. He was a senior editor at Rolling Stone from 1971 to 1975. He lives with his wife, Naomi, and their four sons in Bainbridge Township, Ohio.